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Microsoft Seeing Purple?
Friday, February 1st, 2008The news is out that Microsoft seeks to purchase Yahoo! The search engine marketing world is atwitter with the news. Way too soon to weigh in on whom the big winners and losers would be if this transaction actually occurs.
However, it seems that one of the problems Yahoo! has experienced over the last couple of [...]
22 Billion User Generated Video Views in 2007!
Friday, January 25th, 2008eMarketer has a good report entitled ‘Who’s Watching User-Generated Video?‘.
So, good question. Who is watching videos? First, let’s talk about how many videos YOU are watching. 22 BILLION in 2007!
User-generated videos (UGVs) tallied 22 billion views in 2007, up 70% over 2006, according to Accustream iMedia Research’s “UGV 2005 - 2008: Mania Meets Mainstream” [...]
“Not So Fast MSN,” Says Yahoo!
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007I recently posted “How Good Will It Be?” about MSN doing some major updates to their Live Search functionality. This week Jason Lee at WebProNews wrote an article, Yahoo Makes The Assist, Web 2.0-ifies Results, discussing how Yahoo is now doing the same thing MSN is doing. Yahoo is now offering bring in a new [...]
Has Yahoo Given The User Too Much Power?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Search Engine Land is in the midst of Local Search Week. I came across an interesting post Yahoo Local Now Features “User Denigrated Content” by Mike Blumenthal. He goes on to explain how Yahoo is giving a little too much power to the user.
The new Yahoo Local is making a strong attempt at encouraging user [...]
Do Meta Redirects Work?
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007I’ve been asked the question time and time again! “Do I have to do a 301 redirect or can I do a Meta redirect? My IT guy says we can’t do a 301 redirect.” I recently came across this article from Sebastian’s Pamphlets; “Google and Yahoo accept undelayed meta refreshs as 301 redirects.”
Yahoo clearly states [...]
Is Your Ajax Blocking the Search Engines?
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Many websites are starting to use Ajax to control some of their content on many of their pages. However, they will notice a drop in rankings and traffic. The problem with this is Google has a hard time reading JavaScript. The engines can read the script, it just won’t parse it.
Software Developer provides this recent [...]
Yahoo! Plays Hardball
Friday, August 10th, 2007Yahoo! Search Blog announced that users will now see a player profile with current stats when they search by a payer’s name. This is really great for the fantasy leaguers. I’ve never gotten into that. I could never root against the Indians if my fantasy pitcher was starting against them. I do love baseball, so [...]
Is Yahoo still doing their updates?
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007A few weeks ago, Yahoo mentioned that they would be doing another big update. Over the last couple of weeks I have seen my rankings bounced back and forth from 1st page to nonexistent.
Search Engine Round Table mentioned:
I think (hope) that this newest change reverts back to the original update. What I am seeing [...]
Ask Google and Yahoo! Love or Hate Wikipedia?
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Disclaimer: This is not a scientific survey, and really proves nothing. I had a good chuckle this week when looking at search engine results pages. It seemed just about every query I performed had Wikipedia in the top ten. So I decided to get philosophical. If I wanted to know about love, what would I [...]
Yahoo! What’s Next?
Saturday, June 30th, 2007Now that Terry Semel has resigned as chief executive and now Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang will be filling his shoes. Will he be able to get Yahoo! back on track? Hard to tell, Trip Chowdhry an analyst of Global Equities Research states; “He didn’t function as Chief Yahoo, so why would you think he will [...]
